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- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 141
meet young people: one learns new things from them." Luzhin
looked round hopefully at them all.
"How do you mean?" asked Razumihin.
"In the most serious and essential matters," Pyotr Petrovitch
replied, as though delighted at the question. "You see, it's ten
years since I visited Petersburg. All the novelties, reforms, ideas
have reached us in the provinces, but to see it all more clearly
one must be in Petersburg. And it's my notion that you observe
and learn most by watching the younger generation. And I
confess I am delighted . . ."
"At what?"
"Your question is a wide one. I may be mistaken, but I fancy
I find clearer views, more, so to say, criticism, more practi-
cality .. ."
"That's true," Zossimov let drop.
"Nonsense! There's no practicality." Razumihin flew at him.
"Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down
from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been
divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like, are ferment-
ing," he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, "and desire for good exists,
though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find,
although there are crowds of brigands. Anyway, there's no prac-
ticality. Practicality goes well shod."
"I don't agree with you," Pyotr Petrovitch replied, with evi-
dent enjoyment. "Of course, people do get carried away and
make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mistakes
are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal
external environment. If little has been done, the time has
been but short; of means I will not speak. It's my personal view,
if you care to know, that something has been accomplished al-
ready. New valuable ideas, new valuable works are circulating
in the place of our old dreamy and romantic authors. Literature
is taking a maturer form, many injurious prejudices have been
rooted up and turned into ridicule. ... In a word, we have cut
ourselves off irrevocably from the past, and that, to my think-
ing, isa great thing ..."
"He's learnt it by heart to show off!" Raskolnikov pro-
nounced suddenly.
"What?" asked Pyotr Petrovitch, not catching his words;
but he received no reply.
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